Featured Getting Started Guide

Official Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide is listed at http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html. These are the steps straight after you have installed Centmin Mod http://centminmod.com/download.html.

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Updated Getting Started guide to elaborate on the current method to upload files via SFTP Getting Started with Centmin Mod

 

Updated with a step 11 for MySQL database management including both phpmyadmin.sh and mysqladmin_shell.sh Add on scripts Getting Started with Centmin Mod

 

Updated guide with keeping server updated and maldet + clamAV scanner recommendation Getting Started with Centmin Mod

 

Updated guide with statistics pages explanation for APC Cache, Xcache, Zend Opcache and Memcached Getting Started with Centmin Mod

 

Updated Getting Started guide with specific note for properly setting up main server's hostname DNS entry.

 

Updated Getting Started Guide with PHP-FPM security section at centminmod.com/getstarted.html#14. Also added this to PHP-FPM page at centminmod.com/phpfpm.html

 

Added a note to Getting Started item 11 mentioning MyISAM default engine tables and what to do to switch to InnoDB default storage engine tables.

 

Updated Getting Started Guide item 16 with Monitoring Statistics page information for nodequery.com and nixstats.com

 

FYI, updated Getting Started Guide Step 1 with example of using NameSilo.com DNS management to add the appropriate hostname.mydomain.com DNS A record

 

FYI, updating Getting Started Guide with step 17 for customising php.ini settings information

 

Updated Getting Started Guide with step 18 for managing root user mail spool and root user email forwarder setup.

 

Added a step 19 to Getting Started Guide for Keeping Centmin Mod Code Updated

 

Getting Started Guide Step 1 has been updated to add the suggestion to add SPF/TXT DNS record for main hostname.

 

Added to steps 2 and 8 a link to sticky at Email - Steps to ensure your site/server email doesn't end up in spam inboxes

 

Reminder, Step 4 of getting started guide Getting Started Guide - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS suggests if you have more than one server or a vpn service, to whitelist their respective ips in each web server, so you can SSH in via another server if you are locked out due to a CSF Firewall block ie. failed ftp or ssh log in attempts etc.

 

Added step 20 for Ensure Postfix Outbound Emails Do Not End Up In Spam Inbox

 

Added step 21 for How To Boost Centmin Mod LEMP Stack Performance link